Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth qualifies for the quarter-finals of Men's singles badminton with a 21-19 21-12 win in the Round of 16 match

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Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling Update! Ravinder Khatri is down by 5-0 in the first round against Hungary's Victor Lorincz in the first round

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Men's Triple Jump Update! Ranjith Maheshwary finishes with 15.99 which is not good enough to take him to the next round. He becomes the second Indian athlete to be knocked out of the Rio Olympics after Srabani Nanda

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Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth struggling a bit in the second game as the Danish has made a strong comeback. Srikanth trails 17-15

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Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling Update! India's Ravinder Khatri will be in action shortly in the Round of 16 match. Stay tuned for Live updates

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Badminton Update! After briefly falling behind in the second game, Srikanth has regained the lead at the interval. He leads 11-10

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Badminton Update! Srikanth seems really up for this one. The Indian has built a 7-4 lead in the second game

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Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth has come from 2-0 down to take a 4-3 lead in the second game. Some good badminton from the Indian

Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth takes the first game 21-19. It was a close affair, but Srikanth never let his opponent get ahead in the game. Can he keep it up in the second game?

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Badminton Update! The first game is on a knife edge. Srikanth has game point, leads by 20-18

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Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth remains ahead but it's just a three-point margin as he leads 17-14 in the first game

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Men's Triple Jump Update! Renjith Maheshwary jumps 16.13m in his second attempt. The Indian is still short of the qualification mark of 16.95m and is currently 23rd in the rankings. He has to hit the qualification mark in the final attempt

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Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth is starting to get into his own here in the pre-quarter final clash. He leads Jan O Jorgensen 8-6 in the first game

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Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth has begun his Round of 16 match against Jan O Jorgensen. He leads 4-3 in the first game

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Women's 200m Update! Srabani Nanda finishes sixth in her Heat with a time of 23.58 seconds. Very unlikely to qualify for the next round

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Women's 200m Update! India's Srabani Nanda will be in action in Heat 5 of the first round shortly

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Men's Triple Jump Update! Renjith Maheshwary jumps 15.80 in his first attempts which is way short of the qualification mark. However, he is currently 11th and in the qualifying spots. But that will change very soon. He needs to buck up in his two remaining attempts

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Men's Triple Jump Update! Renjith Maheshwary will soon make his first jump in the qualifying round. Qualifying performance required is 16.95 or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final

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Men's Triple Jump Update! Renjith Maheshwary will be in action in the Qualifying round at 6 PM IST

Badminton Update! Kidambi Srikanth is action in the Round of 16 match at 5:30 PM IST

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Day Nine of Rio Olympics 2016 brought more agony to India as Saina Nehwal, Sania Mirza-Rohan Bopanna, Manoj Kumar, Indian Men's Hockey Team and Dipa Karmakar all bowed out of the competition. However, Dipa Karmakar managed to finish fourth in the Vault final, becoming the greatest ever Indian gymnast in the process. Despite missing a medal by a whisker, her feat was applauded by the whole nation.

Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu both won their respective matches to book a place in the Round of 16 and Day 10 will see both of them in action as they aim to keep the Indian flag flying in the sport. But the biggest event of the day will see Vikas Krishan take on the Uzbekistan boxer in the Men's Boxing quarter-final. A win for Vikas will guarantee him a medal. Indian triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary will also look to reach the respective Final on Tuesday.

Can India end it's wait for a medal on Independence Day? Stick around the blog for all the Live updates from the day's action

Rio de Janeiro: Woman steeplechaser Lalita Babar carries the fervent hopes of the sports fans to finally open India's medal tally on day 10 of the Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

It has been a disastrous outing, barring a few notable exceptions like pint-sized gymnast Dipa Karmakar, for the 100-plus Indian contingent which is now looking up to the Maharashtra woman Lalita to find the elusive medal and create history as the first from the country to climb the podium in athletics.

Be that as it may, it's not going to be an easy task to achieve for the girl from a village in Satara, who clipped nearly seven seconds off compatriot Sudha Singh's national mark when qualifying for the final here through the heats.

Lalita's feat, the first time that a track athlete from the country has made it to the final in 32 years, has been among the very few bright spots for India in the Games which has seen most of its competitors falling way short of expectations.

Wrestlers start their action in the Greco Roman style with Ravinder Khatri taking part in the 85 kg while lone surviving boxing hope, Vikas Krishan, will strive to progress to the semi finals and a sure medal in the men's 75 kg class.

Day nine ended with diminutive gymnast Dipa missing the vault bronze medal by a whisker despite putting on a brave performance in her first Olympic final that saw her finish fourth.

The girl from the north eastern state of Tripura, who has not had the sort of help most other Indians had received in the run-up to the Games, ended up just outside the medal bracket with 15.066 points after putting on a superb display in the eight-woman vault final.

It came as the final redeeming act on a day of unmitigated disaster when shuttler Saina Nehwal, the men's hockey team and tennis pair of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna crashed out.

Dipa's superb show in a sport that is not popular in the country lit up the gloomy day which started with the the exit of London Games bronze medal winner Saina.

Saina, who was carrying a knee injury into the quadrennial sports spectacle, lost 18-21 19-21 to lower ranked rival Maria Ulitina from Ukraine to make a shock exit.

Two other shuttlers, K Srikanth and P V Sindhu, atoned somewhat for Saina's exit by reaching the pre-quarterfinals from their respective groups in men's and women's singles.

Both would be seen in action on Monday.

But more disappointment was in store for the contingent when mixed doubles medal hopes - Bopanna and Sania - lost in the bronze medal play-off in straight sets to the Czech pair of Radek Stepanek and Lucie Hradceka.

To add insult to injury, the men's hockey squad, which had qualified for the knock-out phase after 36 years, was bundled out of the competition by Belgium which inflicted a 3-1 defeat.

The shooters continued to misfire as rifle shooters Gagan Narang and Chain Singh failed to make the final of the 50m 3-position event, finishing a lowly 23rd and 33rd respectively, to end the country's dismal campaign.

Women marathoners O P Jaisha and Kavita Raut were also out of depth and finished way behind in 89th and 120th spots clocking unimpressive time of 2 hours, 47 minutes, 19 seconds and 2:59:29 respectively.